alpha.gnu.org copies of pre3 were corrupted

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Wed May 19 09:34:00 GMT 1999


Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> I just replaced the 2.1.1pre3 files on alpha.gnu.org with those from
> sourceware.cygnus.com.  It appears they all got corrupted or truncated
> during the transfer.  
> Note that these were corrupt in a way such that `gzip -l' liked them
> fine--but actually gunzip'ing them all way would barf near the end.
> Ulrich, please doublecheck the files after you upload, something like
> log in to melange and do gunzip < new-file >/dev/null.

Well, I've seen this now a few times.  Everybody's files seem to be
corrupted (try the ones in gnu/fetish).  It must have something to do
with the machines.  Probably I should stop using it.

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